Ukrainian citizens have blocked roads leading to Europe’s largest power plant

Telegraph 2nd March 2022
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/03/02/ukraine-nuclear-power-plant-zaporizhzhia-russia-invasion/
Daily Mail 2nd March 2022
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10571139/Civilians-use-lorries-block-road-Europes-biggest-nuclear-plant-Russian-troops-advance.html

Ordinary Ukrainians were turning out to defend Europe’s largest nuclear power plant from a Russian takeover on Wednesday as the International Atomic Energy Agency convened an emergency meeting with the hope of creating safe zones around the embattled country’s nuclear reactors. The International Atomic Energy Agency announced it would convene the meeting as fighting closes in on the Zaporozhe plant in southern Ukraine, which sits on the Dneper River city of Enerhodar and lies astride Russian’s main invasions lines from the East and the Black Sea. Energoatom, Ukraine’s state nuclear power plant operator, has asked the IAEA, a body of the United Nations, to intervene by enforcing a 30-kilometer buffer around its four operational nuclear power plants to keep them free from a strike by Russian forces, which launched a major war in Ukraine last Thursday. In a statement to the World Nuclear Association, Energoatom said that columns of military equipment and forces have been moving near its nuclear power plants, with “shells exploding near the nuclear power plant” adding that “this can lead to highly undesirable threats across the planet.”
Bellona 2nd March 2022
https://bellona.org/news/ukraine/2022-03-what-we-know-the-state-of-ukraines-nuclear-power-plants-as-russia-invades

Russian forces surround Ukraine’s biggest nuclear plant, sparking UN concerns. Nuclear watchdog chief pleads with invading troops to allow workers to carry on ‘providing safety and monotoring radiation’ at Zaporizhzhia. The UN nuclear watchdog has voiced concern after Russian forces claimed to have surrounded Ukraine’s biggest atomic plant, and called for its workers to be left alone to do their jobs. Rafael Grossi, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said the Russian government had informed the agency that its troops had taken control of the area around the Zaporizhzhia plant in south-eastern Ukraine, the second biggest in Europe, housing six of the country’s 15 reactors. In their letter to the IAEA, Russian officials insisted that Ukrainian staff at the plant were continuing to “work on providing nuclear safety and monitoring radiation in normal mode of operation”. However, the Ukrainian state enterprise running the country’s nuclear industry, Energoatom, accused the Russian military of “openly terrorizing employees of the station and residents of its satellite city Energodar”.
Guardian 3rd March 2022 
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/03/russian-forces-surround-ukraines-biggest-nuclear-plant-sparking-un-concerns